The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
JAMES BALDWIN
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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